Friday, 24 August 2012

Sold! : Rift

I do apologize. I came across the following video on a blog I don't usually read, which was linked from a blog on my blog roll. Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me remember either of them. If it was you (either you) consider yourself credited!

And heartily thanked. If not for that I might never have seen it. This rather ropey video single-handedly shoved Rift's Storm Legion expansion up the Team Bhagpuss must-buy list from "mmmm, maybe" to "hell, yeah!" so I thought I'd mention it here to spread the word.

3 comments:

But... Housing! yay! That is definitely one of the things I'm interested in. I just wonder where all these items will come from. I personally really like the EQ2 system of having a profession that focuses on creating housing items.

There is one problem with housing: make it too good, and add too many convenience items, and people will hide in their personal instances, instead of the cities. I think that was a problem with EQ2's guild halls to a certain extent. You could put everything you'd ever need into your guild halls: vendors, bank and auction house access, world teleport, crafting stations... many of these make sense as quality-of-life extensions (who wouldn't want to have a forge in their house if they're a master smith?), but there was no real reason to ever go to the cities any more and meet other people. Let's hope Rift knows how to tread the fine line between convenience and a dead world.

@Professer Heh! That'd be interesting but I get the feeling that's kinda not where Trion are going right now.

@Flosch Rift currently doesn't have much of a center for people to gather in anyway, although ironically there's one coming in the expansion. But yes, it is a paradox. Make the housing sufficiently attractive and people disappear from the streets; don't make it interesting enough and no-one bothers with it at all. Not beyond the wit of MMO designers to find a middle path, though, I would have thought.